I was on the fence with Black Panther after I seen the first teaser and full trailer for the movie. I had my concerns because I couldn’t figure out how they could top the awesome introduction of T’Challa/Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War released in 2016. I never read any comics on Black Panther so Civil War was my first introduction of the character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1966.

I confirm with full confidence that Black Panther solo film exceeded beyond my expectations. Black Panther was absolutely incredible! Finally a mainstream film that truly depict Black people with class, grace, intelligence and power . This was definitely a bold move by Marvel and Disney. The ladies in the film, Black Panther’s royal guard, The Dora Milaje were just amazing. I was pleased with how African culture was represented and respected. I had to co-sign on the majority of what Michael B. Jordan character Erik Killmonger believed as how Africa resources were stolen and our people enslaved by other countries. We are not a hopeless people but a strong people. This film was so empowering. The film left me feeling good inside but also let me know as a society we still have more work to do on both sides. I can assure you that I will be seeing a second screening in a few weeks.

Black Panther wasn’t just a great film it broke all kind of records at the box office. The film had an estimated budget of $200 million and has already took in $548.9 million worldwide. The film jumped off to a awesome start last Thursday with a $25 million with 3 –day total of $200 million, just falling a few million to The Avengers : Age of Ultron 3 –day record of $207 million. Personally, I think the film can hit $1 billion dollars worldwide before it leaves the theaters. I think Marvel and Disney have struck gold with T’Challa and the Black Panther property. I’m ready for Black Panther 2 now!

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Starting this week, Facebook will begin asking users worldwide to review their privacy settings with a prompt that appears within the Facebook app. The experience will ask you to review how Facebook uses your personal data across a range of products, from ad targeting to facial recognition. This request to review Facebook’s updated terms and your settings follows a similar experience rolled out to users in the European Union as a result of the new user data privacy regulation, GDPR.
However, EU users have to agree to the new terms of service in order to continue using Facebook, Recode point out, after asking Facebook how the worldwide experience differs from the one being shown in Europe.
Elsewhere in the world, users who dismiss the prompt twice will be automatically opted in.
But before you close that window too quickly, you may want to take a look at what Facebook is asking.
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Review Your Privacy Settings
Posted by Facebook on Wednesday, May 23, 2018
In the new prompt, which appears when you visit News Feed, Facebook will allow you to review details about advertising, facial recognition, and the information you’ve chosen to share on your profile.
For example, you may no longer feel comfortable having your religion, political views or relationship information exposed, and the new experience will allow you to change those settings.
As you continue reviewing your information, each screen will walk you through what data is collected and how it’s used, allowing you to make better decisions about Facebook’s use of your data.
Specially, Facebook says the feature will include the following information:
How it uses data from partners to show more relevant advertising
Political, religious, and relationship information you’ve chosen to include on your profile
How it uses face recognition, including for features that help protect your privacy
Updates to its terms of service and data policy (that were announced in April)
If you’ve already disabled some of these settings, you won’t be shown that information or encouraged to turn the features back on.
After you adjust your settings, the changes go into effect immediately and you can adjust them again at any time from Settings or Privacy Shortcuts, the company says.
Though the GDPR is aimed at protecting user data in the EU, Facebook has come under fire for its breach of trust with its user base due to the Cambridge Analytica scandal – where data was hijacked from 87 million users without their consent. The company is now revisiting a lot of its user data privacy practices and making changes as result of both that and GDPR’s requirements.
The experience will start popping up on Facebook this week.
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Created to help app developers find and fix bugs more efficiently, Sentry announced today that it has raised a $16 million Series B led by returning investors NEA and Accel. Both firms participated in Sentry’s Series A round two years ago.
Co-founder and CEO David Cramer tells TechCrunch that the new round puts Sentry’s post-money valuation at around $100 million. The company recently launched Sentry 9, which, like its other software, is open source. Sentry 9 lets app developers integrate error remediation into their workflows by automatically notifying the developers responsible for that part of the code, letting them filter by environment to hone in on the issue, and manage collaboration among different teams. This reduces the amount of time it takes to fix bugs from “five hours to five minutes,” Sentry claims.
The company will “double down on developers and their adjacent roles,” in particular product teams, Cramer says. Next in the pipeline is tools that will answer more in-depth questions related to app performance management.
“Today we answer ‘this specific thing is broken, why?’ Next we’ll expand that into deeper insights whether it’s ‘these sets of things are broken for the same reason’ as well as exploring non-errors. For example, if you deploy an update to your product and traffic to your sign-up form goes to zero that’s pretty serious, even if you’re not generating errors,” Cramer says.
Sentry’s technology originated as an internal tool for exception logging in Djana applications while its founders, Chris Jennings and Cramer, were working at Disqus. After they open-sourced it, the software quickly expanded into more programming languages. Sentry launched a hosted service in 2012 to answer demand. It now claims to have 9,000 paying customers (including Airbnb, Dropbox, PayPal, Twitter and Uber), be used by 500,000 engineers and process more than 360 billion errors a year.
In a press statement, Accel partner Dan Levine said “Sentry’s growth is a testament to the now-universal truth that app users everywhere expect a flawless experience free of bugs and crashes. Poor user experience kills companies. In order to keep moving forward as quickly as possible, product teams need to know that customers will never leave because of a broken app update. Sentry lets every developer build software that is functionally error-free.”
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Starting this week, Facebook will begin asking users worldwide to review their privacy settings with a prompt that appears within the Facebook app. The experience will ask you to review how Facebook uses your personal data across a range of products, from ad targeting to facial recognition. This request to review Facebook’s updated terms and your settings follows a similar experience rolled out to users in the European Union as a result of the new user data privacy regulation, GDPR.
However, EU users have to agree to the new terms of service in order to continue using Facebook, Recode point out, after asking Facebook how the worldwide experience differs from the one being shown in Europe.
Elsewhere in the world, users who dismiss the prompt twice will be automatically opted in.
But before you close that window too quickly, you may want to take a look at what Facebook is asking.
(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.0'; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));
Review Your Privacy Settings
Posted by Facebook on Wednesday, May 23, 2018
In the new prompt, which appears when you visit News Feed, Facebook will allow you to review details about advertising, facial recognition, and the information you’ve chosen to share on your profile.
For example, you may no longer feel comfortable having your religion, political views or relationship information exposed, and the new experience will allow you to change those settings.
As you continue reviewing your information, each screen will walk you through what data is collected and how it’s used, allowing you to make better decisions about Facebook’s use of your data.
Specially, Facebook says the feature will include the following information:
How it uses data from partners to show more relevant advertising
Political, religious, and relationship information you’ve chosen to include on your profile
How it uses face recognition, including for features that help protect your privacy
Updates to its terms of service and data policy (that were announced in April)
If you’ve already disabled some of these settings, you won’t be shown that information or encouraged to turn the features back on.
After you adjust your settings, the changes go into effect immediately and you can adjust them again at any time from Settings or Privacy Shortcuts, the company says.
Though the GDPR is aimed at protecting user data in the EU, Facebook has come under fire for its breach of trust with its user base due to the Cambridge Analytica scandal – where data was hijacked from 87 million users without their consent. The company is now revisiting a lot of its user data privacy practices and making changes as result of both that and GDPR’s requirements.
The experience will start popping up on Facebook this week.
... Read More

Created to help app developers find and fix bugs more efficiently, Sentry announced today that it has raised a $16 million Series B led by returning investors NEA and Accel. Both firms participated in Sentry’s Series A round two years ago.
Co-founder and CEO David Cramer tells TechCrunch that the new round puts Sentry’s post-money valuation at around $100 million. The company recently launched Sentry 9, which, like its other software, is open source. Sentry 9 lets app developers integrate error remediation into their workflows by automatically notifying the developers responsible for that part of the code, letting them filter by environment to hone in on the issue, and manage collaboration among different teams. This reduces the amount of time it takes to fix bugs from “five hours to five minutes,” Sentry claims.
The company will “double down on developers and their adjacent roles,” in particular product teams, Cramer says. Next in the pipeline is tools that will answer more in-depth questions related to app performance management.
“Today we answer ‘this specific thing is broken, why?’ Next we’ll expand that into deeper insights whether it’s ‘these sets of things are broken for the same reason’ as well as exploring non-errors. For example, if you deploy an update to your product and traffic to your sign-up form goes to zero that’s pretty serious, even if you’re not generating errors,” Cramer says.
Sentry’s technology originated as an internal tool for exception logging in Djana applications while its founders, Chris Jennings and Cramer, were working at Disqus. After they open-sourced it, the software quickly expanded into more programming languages. Sentry launched a hosted service in 2012 to answer demand. It now claims to have 9,000 paying customers (including Airbnb, Dropbox, PayPal, Twitter and Uber), be used by 500,000 engineers and process more than 360 billion errors a year.
In a press statement, Accel partner Dan Levine said “Sentry’s growth is a testament to the now-universal truth that app users everywhere expect a flawless experience free of bugs and crashes. Poor user experience kills companies. In order to keep moving forward as quickly as possible, product teams need to know that customers will never leave because of a broken app update. Sentry lets every developer build software that is functionally error-free.”
... Read More